News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-17
MRS. GRAHAM'S FATE,
Rumor that She Still Lives Though Her
Husband was Lynched for X ling Her.

| SPRINGFIELD, Mo. No one here
knows what to make of the story widely
| telegraphed from Boston that there was
some mistake about the murder of Mrs.
Sarah Graham, the wife of George Ora
ham, the evangelist and coworker with
Mrs. Emma Molloy, the celebrated
Western revivalist. A few days before
Graham was hung he confessed the muir
| der of his wife and detailed all the cir
| cumstances of the crime, and the only
thing that is now to be determined is
whether Cora Lee, Graham's bigamous
wife, was concerned in the murder.
| Cora is now in Jail here. as she has been
since the tragedy, and will be brought
| to trial this month Since Graham's
| death the young woman has given birth
| to a child, of which the murderer was
| the father. Her illness and her long
| imprisonment have reduced her consid-
erablv, but she is still an attractive look
| ing Young woman, and does not give
evidence, either In appearance or in
| manner, of a disposition which would
enable her to figure in so heartless a
CRIME as that which sent Sarah Graham
to her death.
The Boston story is considered by
some an attempt by religious friends of
Mrs Molloy to smooth over her connec-
ton with the murderer Graham, and to
set up plausible doubt as to the guilt
of that vicious creature in the light of
which his companions may be regarded
with less suspicion. The body of the
murdered woman was distinctly identi-
fed as that of Graham's wife, and his
own confession, carefully told in order
to shield himself as much as possible,
would convince most people even if there
was a doubt as 10 the body.
Mrs Molloy is now in Washington
Territory speaking in favor of temper
ance, woman suffrage, and religion. The
dead woman's children are now here,
and they readily believed that their mo-
Their had gone West until their father
confessed he had XII led her. Since then
they have mourned her as dead, as have
all her re atives in Indiana, who were
instrumental in breaking up the nest
here in which she met her fate The at
tempt to duplicate Mrs Molloy in the
crime as an accessory after tho fact was
a failure and she soon regained her Ii
bertv. { ora Lee is held as an accessory
Def re the fact, and an attempt will be
made convict her at the approaching
session of the Circuit Court. The pro-
secution rests its case, however, upon
evidence which may no prove entire y
satisfactory. One of its chief witnesses
has recently been convicted of a crime,
and this Is expected to weigh heavily
against him.
1t is held by the State that Sarah |
Graham was not murdered, as her hus.
band says she was, but that she actually |
arrived at the Molloy house and threat |
ened al parties with exposure; that she |
was decoyed there, instead of forcing |
her way as to by Graham, and that |
Cora Lee, who had supplanted her as
Graham's wife, planned and assisted in |
the execution of the murder down by the |
o well. Cora is confident of acquittal, |
and it would surprise no one here it she
should go free OF the death of Sarah |
Graham by violence, however, no doubt
need be entertained. She was XII ed on
the night of Sept. 80, 1885, somewhere
on the road between Springfield and the
Mo 10y farm, and for more than three
months her body lay in the we | where
it was thrown, the two women and
Graham going and coming daily during
that time on their mission as evangelists.
1t might have remained there until this
day had not the re atives of the missing
woman come on here in search of her,
refusing to believe the story, which has
now been set afoat again, that she had
gone to the Pacific coast never to re-
turn.